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Zeta2 Muscae

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Magnitude
  
5.15

Constellation
  
Musca

Similar
  
Theta Muscae, NGC 4833, NGC 5189

Zeta2 Muscae (ζ2 Muscae) is a star in the southern constellation of Musca. Its apparent magnitude is 5.16. This is a white main sequence star of spectral type A5V around 330 light-years distant from Earth. Like several other stars in the constellation, it is a member of the Lower Centaurus Crux subgroup of the Scorpius–Centaurus Association, a group of predominantly hot blue-white stars that share a common origin and proper motion across the galaxy. It is part of a triple star system with faint companions at 0.5 and 32.4 arc seconds distance. The former is an infrared source, the latter has a visual magnitude of 10.7.

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Zeta2 Muscae Wikipedia